ISBN:
0826263100
,
9780826263100
,
0826212956
,
9780826212955
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (251 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Southern women
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Negotiating boundaries of southern womanhood
DDC:
305.40975
Keywords:
Women History
;
Southern States
;
African American women History
;
Southern States
;
Southern States
;
USA
;
Südstaaten
;
Women History
;
African American women History
;
African American women
;
Women
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Geschichte
;
Schwarze Frau
;
Frau
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies
;
History
;
Electronic books
;
USA ; Südstaaten
;
Southern States
;
Electronic book
;
Electronic books History
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Annotation In a time when most Americans never questioned the premise that women should be subordinate to men, and in a place where only white men enjoyed fully the rights and privileges of citizenship, many women learned how to negotiate societal boundaries and to claim a share of power for themselves in a male-dominated world.Covering the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries,Negotiating Boundaries of Southern Womanhooddescribes the ways southern women found to advance their development and independence and establish their own identities in the context of a society that restricted their opportunities and personal freedom.They confronted, cooperated with, and sometimes were co-opted by existing powers: the white and African American elite whose status was determined by wealth, family name, gender, race, skin color, or combinations thereof. Some women took action against established powers and, in so doing, strengthened their own communities; some bowed to the powers and went along to get along; some became the powers, using status to ensure their prosperity as well as their survival. All chose their actions based on the time and place in which they lived.In these thought-provoking essays, the authors illustrate the complex intersections of race, class, and gender as they examine the ways in which southern women dealt with "the powers that be" and, in some instances, became those powers. Elitism, status, and class were always filtered through a prism of race and gender in the South, and women of both races played an important role in maintaining as well as challenging the hierarchies that existed
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=3570687
Permalink